Cinema Quotes · Page 325

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts.

— John Woo

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

— Richard LaGravenese

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

— Miranda Otto

Compare with a country like China, India has very few cinema screens, as we have real estate problems.

— Satish Kaushik

“My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Only when a film comes along that I really believe in like this one will I turn to acting.

— Sterling Hayden

I am no champion, no great name, just a small actor who loves working for cinema.

— Rishi Kapoor

I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start…

— Kirsten Dunst

Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It's only when I have to promote my…

— Mahesh Babu

There is no border. I'm branding my films as Malay cinema, but it's just about cinema. Everything that I make is about…

— Lav Diaz

All great directors - however, they do it - make you want to be good. I hope I do it. It's like…

— Ann Reinking

The kind of films that I do... they don't really have the budget for the actress to wear designer clothes. I think…

— Richa Chadha

I want to be able to bring out stories like 'Verna,' as well as stories which are of the modern and new…

— Mahira Khan

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed…

— Ryan Gosling

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I met Hugh Jackman, and I was like, 'I love your movies!' And, of course, he asked, 'Which one?' A reasonable question,…

— Karan Johar

I've had the chance to work with Christopher Plummer, one of the great stage and film actors, a couple of times, including…

— David Morse

In some ways, it's easier to be the lead. Week after week, scene after scene, the rhythms of filming force you to…

— Corey Stoll

My films, I've tried to put a message into them. It's not about the gore; it's not about the horror element that…

— George A. Romero

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action…

— Ice Cube

I'm trying to avoid any more asshole roles, at least for a little bit. The main criteria for me when choosing a…

— Dave Franco

“Tony Williams: You’ve often mentioned that Tales of Hoffmann (1951) has been a major influence on you. George Romero: It was the…

— George A. Romero

For me, making a movie is kind of like vomiting. Not that film is like vomit, but more like this mass of…

— Harmony Korine

Artists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films.

— Jacob Weisberg

Madhuri should do more films. She should do a film with me where she is romancing me.

— Jackie Shroff

I have acted in several theatre groups in Bengaluru and my passion has always been films.

— Shraddha Srinath

I have a nationally distributed film whose pivotal scene is the ultrasound-guided abortion.

— Abby Johnson

Cowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet.

— Louie Psihoyos

Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.

— Jodie Foster

Big or small, if you can do justice to the role then people will always take your character back from the film.

— Prachi Desai

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

— Christopher Nolan

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

— David Puttnam

I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.

— Elia Kazan

Short films are good, especially since independent films are making waves now, more than before.

— Karthik Subbaraj

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

— Michel Hazanavicius

I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. Thats the fact.

— Mithun Chakraborty

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

— Rob Zombie

“[on Springsteen's "Stolen Car":] A kind of mystical film noir, written by Kafka and shot by Polanski.”

— Adam Sweeting